Offering Group: Plaque with Frontal and Profile Faces
800–1200(?)
Maker Unknown
Art of the Americas
Offering Group: Plaque with Frontal and Profile Faces, 800–1200(?). Mexico, Guerrero(?), San Jerónimo de Juárez, Xochicalco style. Jadeite with albitite; overall: 7.9 x 6.3 x 0.7 cm (3 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.213 This greenstone plaque is said to have been found inside a translucent stone vessel, together with two shells (1990.252.1–3). A similar offering was found in a pyramid ornamented with feathered serpents at Xochicalco, a site south of the Valley of Mexico. The red pigment may be cinnabar, the same mineral used to color Chinese lacquerware.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- jadeite with albitite
- Dimensions
- Overall: 7.9 x 6.3 x 0.7 cm (3 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Art of the Americas
- Accession Number
- 1990.213
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
- Exhibitions
- The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 4 - November 29, 1992. "The Gruener Collection of Pre-Columbian Art." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art. 79 (September, 1992.) cat. no. 94, p. 273, repr. p. 260.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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